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Grampa In Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] May 05, 2023

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Grampa In Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

Another great book in the world of Oz, in which King Fumbo of Ragbad loses his head in a storm and Prince Tatters, accompanied by the wise and wonderful old soldier Grampa, sets off to find the king's head, a fortune, and a princess. With Bill, a live iron weathercock, they visit a Wizard's Garden and discover Urtha, a lovely girl made all of flowers -- and proceed to fall, swim, explode, sail, and fly above and below Oz and Ev. Grampa and Co. eventually meet Dorothy herself, traveling with a Forgetful Poet in search of the missing princess of Perhaps City who has been condemned to marry a monster! Ruth Plumly Thompson really hits her stride in this book, telling the OZ story with her own dash and style that will make you smile and outright laugh each chapter. The puns are continuous and those will make you groan!

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:15:23) Chapter 02

(00:26:54) Chapter 03

(00:41:49) Chapter 04

(00:53:59) Chapter 05

(01:05:51) Chapter 06

(01:23:44) Chapter 07

(01:34:33) Chapter 08

(01:49:44) Chapter 09

(02:08:01) Chapter 10

(02:28:29) Chapter 11

(02:41:02) Chapter 12

(02:57:19) Chapter 13

(03:13:03) Chapter 14

(03:27:36) Chapter 15

(03:48:35) Chapter 16

(03:56:23) Chapter 17

(04:10:26) Chapter 18

(04:23:42) Chapter 19

(04:38:36) Chapter 20

(04:45:53) Chapter 21

(04:51:58) Chapter 22

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Captain Salt in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] May 04, 2023

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Captain Salt in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

A voyage on the famous Nonestic Ocean! What could be more thrilling than that? We—many of us—have taken trips on the prosaic Atlantic or even Pacific, but have we found a SEA FOREST with flying fish and swimming birds? Have we been pursued by a real SEA SERPENT, or had our ship transfixed by the immense ivory tusk of a NARWHAL? Have we come upon the glittering island of PEAKENSPIRE, or made friends with a charming talking hippopotamus? Yet all these things and more befall Captain Salt, one time Pirate and now Royal Explorer of Oz, and his merry crew. They come back with their hold bursting with unique and fascinating specimens, with their chart crowded with new islands, claimed for Ozma, and drawn so realistically by the delightful little boy Tandy, Cabin Boy and Artist of the Expedition.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:19:05) Chapter 02

(00:28:44) Chapter 03

(00:51:18) Chapter 04

(01:09:57) Chapter 05

(01:30:13) Chapter 06

(01:49:20) Chapter 07

(02:07:05) Chapter 08

(02:23:37) Chapter 09

(02:40:56) Chapter 10

(02:57:51) Chapter 11

(03:13:53) Chapter 12

(03:32:18) Chapter 13

(03:45:33) Chapter 14

(03:59:32) Chapter 15

(04:17:25) Chapter 16

(04:23:01) Chapter 17

(04:32:37) Chapter 18

(04:50:15) Chapter 19

(05:06:22) Chapter 20

(05:10:49) Chapter 21

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Collected Poems by Rupert Brooke ~ Full Audiobook [poetry] May 03, 2023

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Collected Poems by Rupert Brooke audiobook.

Genre: poetry

Rupert Brooke's Collected Poems gathers the brief, radiant body of work that made him one of the defining English voices of the early 20th century. Moving from lush, sensuous celebrations of countryside and city life to intimate lyrics of desire, friendship, and restless self-scrutiny, these poems trace a young poet testing the limits of beauty, belief, and belonging. Brooke writes with a startling clarity that can feel effortless, yet underneath the polished surfaces runs an emotional current: the ache of time passing, the hunger for intensity, and the longing to be fully alive. The collection also includes the poems that fixed his reputation in the public imagination during the First World War, where idealism and duty are shaped into memorable, hymn-like statements about home and sacrifice. Read together, the poems form a portrait of a generation poised between late-Victorian certainty and modern disillusion, and of an artist whose gifts burn bright and fast. This audiobook invites listeners to hear Brooke's musical line, precise imagery, and shifting moods as a single, unfolding experience.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:03:40) Chapter 02

(00:06:56) Chapter 03

(00:09:23) Chapter 04

(00:11:25) Chapter 05

(00:13:31) Chapter 06

(00:15:04) Chapter 07

(00:16:51) Chapter 08

(00:18:27) Chapter 09

(00:20:59) Chapter 10

(00:23:48) Chapter 11

(00:26:15) Chapter 12

(00:27:44) Chapter 13

(00:29:48) Chapter 14

(00:31:32) Chapter 15

(00:33:57) Chapter 16

(00:35:32) Chapter 17

(00:37:20) Chapter 18

(00:38:56) Chapter 19

(00:40:46) Chapter 20

(00:42:27) Chapter 21

(00:45:28) Chapter 22

(00:48:16) Chapter 23

(00:50:54) Chapter 24

(00:56:00) Chapter 25

(00:58:50) Chapter 26

(01:01:40) Chapter 27

(01:03:22) Chapter 28

(01:05:21) Chapter 29

(01:06:59) Chapter 30

(01:08:45) Chapter 31

(01:13:26) Chapter 32

(01:15:17) Chapter 33

(01:18:18) Chapter 34

(01:20:32) Chapter 35

(01:23:02) Chapter 36

(01:24:48) Chapter 37

(01:27:58) Chapter 38

(01:30:30) Chapter 39

(01:32:42) Chapter 40

(01:35:12) Chapter 41

(01:37:02) Chapter 42

(01:39:57) Chapter 43

(01:44:20) Chapter 44

(01:46:00) Chapter 45

(01:47:38) Chapter 46

(01:49:09) Chapter 47

(01:50:43) Chapter 48

(01:53:20) Chapter 49

(01:56:06) Chapter 50

(01:58:23) Chapter 51

(02:00:11) Chapter 52

(02:02:05) Chapter 53

(02:03:52) Chapter 54

(02:05:43) Chapter 55

(02:07:27) Chapter 56

(02:08:55) Chapter 57

(02:13:38) Chapter 58

(02:16:28) Chapter 59

(02:22:51) Chapter 60

(02:25:22) Chapter 61

(02:26:52) Chapter 62

(02:28:13) Chapter 63

(02:29:56) Chapter 64

(02:31:39) Chapter 65

(02:33:14) Chapter 66

(02:34:57) Chapter 67

(02:36:37) Chapter 68

(02:38:24) Chapter 69

(02:40:00) Chapter 70

(02:41:46) Chapter 71

(02:43:32) Chapter 72

(02:45:13) Chapter 73

(02:46:51) Chapter 74

(02:49:26) Chapter 75

(02:51:05) Chapter 76

(02:53:55) Chapter 77

(02:55:09) Chapter 78

(02:56:36) Chapter 79

(02:57:54) Chapter 80

(03:02:57) Chapter 81

(03:07:20) Chapter 82

(03:15:56) Chapter 83

(03:17:19) Chapter 84

(03:19:11) Chapter 85

(03:20:26) Chapter 86

(03:21:20) Chapter 87

(03:23:24) Chapter 88

(03:25:03) Chapter 89

(03:28:33) Chapter 90

(03:29:40) Chapter 91

(03:31:15) Chapter 92

(03:32:50) Chapter 93

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Kim by Rudyard Kipling ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] May 02, 2023

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Kim by Rudyard Kipling audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Orphaned and streetwise, Kimball O'Hara - known to everyone simply as Kim - grows up in the crowded, shifting world of British India, drifting between cultures with an easy talent for languages, disguises, and friendships. When he meets an aging Tibetan lama searching for a holy river said to bring spiritual freedom, Kim becomes his devoted chela, guiding him across the subcontinent's bazaars, temples, and mountain roads. But Kim's gift for slipping unnoticed through every layer of society draws the attention of British intelligence, pulling him into the covert contest of the Great Game as rival powers maneuver for influence beyond the northern frontier. Torn between loyalty to the lama's peaceful quest and the dangerous work he is trained to do, Kim must decide what kind of life - and what kind of self - he will claim. Vivid, panoramic, and rich with travel, humor, and tension, Kipling's classic follows a boy coming of age amid clashing empires and spiritual longing, asking whether identity is inherited, chosen, or performed, and what it costs to serve more than one master.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:37:23) Chapter 01

(01:11:31) Chapter 02

(01:50:49) Chapter 03

(02:39:29) Chapter 04

(02:59:16) Chapter 04

(03:29:15) Chapter 05

(03:51:31) Chapter 05

(04:18:51) Chapter 06

(05:02:59) Chapter 07

(05:44:33) Chapter 08

(06:29:49) Chapter 09

(06:56:51) Chapter 09

(07:24:25) Chapter 10

(08:10:46) Chapter 11

(08:48:40) Chapter 11

(09:10:46) Chapter 12

(09:46:31) Chapter 12

(10:16:52) Chapter 13

(10:44:47) Chapter 13

(11:13:34) Chapter 14

(12:01:38) Chapter 15

(12:28:29) Chapter 15

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Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling ~ Full Audiobook [folklore] May 01, 2023

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Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling audiobook.

Genre: folklore

Just So Stories is Rudyard Kipling's sparkling collection of origin tales - playful, rhythmic, and full of mischief - that explain how the world got its quirks. In these classic bedtime adventures, curious animals and headstrong people collide with the forces of nature to create the traits we recognize today: an elephant child whose endless questions lead to a life-changing tug-of-war, a camel who learns the cost of saying 'Humph,' a whale outwitted by a clever castaway, and more. Kipling's narrator speaks directly to the listener with a conspiratorial wink, weaving refrains, jokes, and vivid exaggerations that feel like stories told aloud by a master entertainer. Beneath the humor and fantasy is a steady beat of themes: curiosity and consequence, cleverness versus stubbornness, and the unpredictable ways small choices can reshape a life. Inventive, warm, and wonderfully theatrical, this audiobook-friendly classic invites families and longtime fans alike to settle in and hear how the leopard got his spots - and why the stories are told 'just so.'

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:07:54) Chapter 02

(00:15:48) Chapter 03

(00:22:25) Chapter 04

(00:37:44) Chapter 05

(00:56:42) Chapter 06

(01:06:05) Chapter 07

(01:26:02) Chapter 08

(01:49:37) Chapter 09

(02:13:42) Chapter 10

(02:38:30) Chapter 11

(03:05:29) Chapter 12

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Abaft The Funnel by Rudyard Kipling ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Apr 28, 2023

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Abaft The Funnel by Rudyard Kipling audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Abaft the Funnel gathers Rudyard Kipling's sharp-eyed tales and sketches of men living where comfort ends and work begins: on ships running the China seas, in steamy ports, and in the cramped social worlds that travel with the British Empire. The opening pieces drop you aboard the Whanghoa, where a ship's routine is thrown delightfully off-balance by Erastasius, a cat with a gift for mischief and an instinct for finding trouble. citeturn1view0 From there, Kipling shifts tone and latitude: a smoky night in Manila, a hard lesson in responsibility, and portraits of officers, drifters, and professionals whose reputations can rise or collapse on a single choice. One narrator, in a late-hour dive, recognizes a ruined stranger by the coded fellowship of their shared schooling and listens as the man edges toward confession. citeturn0search3 Across the collection, Kipling writes with brisk humor and sudden seriousness, peering past the polished decks and parlor talk to the pressures below - pride, duty, appetite, fear, and the price of belonging. These stories are less about grand voyages than the human machinery that keeps them moving. citeturn1view0

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:53) Chapter 02

(00:21:06) Chapter 03

(00:27:33) Chapter 04

(00:35:06) Chapter 05

(00:43:20) Chapter 06

(00:52:45) Chapter 07

(01:03:33) Chapter 08

(01:11:58) Chapter 09

(01:24:15) Chapter 10

(01:32:59) Chapter 11

(01:40:03) Chapter 12

(01:49:01) Chapter 13

(02:00:34) Chapter 14

(02:14:16) Chapter 15

(02:35:31) Chapter 16

(02:59:05) Chapter 17

(03:22:35) Chapter 18

(03:51:19) Chapter 19

(04:01:24) Chapter 20

(04:04:55) Chapter 21

(04:45:22) Chapter 22

(04:52:56) Chapter 23

(05:00:15) Chapter 24

(05:09:35) Chapter 25

(05:20:38) Chapter 26

(05:31:04) Chapter 27

(05:47:15) Chapter 28

(05:55:42) Chapter 29

(06:06:16) Chapter 30

(06:16:17) Chapter 31

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The Romance of an Old Fool by Roswell Field ~ Full Audiobook [romance] Apr 27, 2023

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The Romance of an Old Fool by Roswell Field audiobook.

Genre: romance

John Stanhope is a comfortable, successful widower in middle life, content with his books, his country routines, and the dry-witted company of Bunsey, a would-be novelist who is forever observing (and judging) the romantic impulses of others. Yet when a chance trip draws John back to the small town of his boyhood, old streets and familiar names awaken a longing he did not know was still alive. Among renewed friendships and remembered places, he learns that Sylvia, the girl who once shaped his earliest idea of love, died soon after he left. In her absence, John finds himself captivated by Sylvia's daughter, Phyllis, whose youth, charm, and resemblance to the past blur the line between memory and desire. As John drifts from nostalgia into courtship, the town's quiet expectations, the warnings of practical friends, and his own uneasy self-knowledge force him to ask what, exactly, he is pursuing: a real future, or a beautifully preserved illusion. Wry, tender, and sharply observant, this novella explores aging, loneliness, and the strange ways the heart rewrites history.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:37:12) Chapter 2

(00:54:52) Chapter 3

(01:11:38) Chapter 4

(01:35:52) Chapter 5

(02:01:42) Chapter 6

(02:20:37) Chapter 7

(02:44:00) Chapter 8

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Pierre and Luce by Romain Rolland ~ Full Audiobook [romance] Apr 26, 2023

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Pierre and Luce by Romain Rolland audiobook.

Genre: romance

Set in Paris during the final year of World War I, Pierre and Luce follows two teenagers who meet by chance in the shadow of air raid sirens and long range shelling. Pierre, a sensitive and thoughtful schoolboy, has been pushed into adulthood by the constant pressure of loss and uncertainty. Luce, younger but fiercely alive, carries her own private world of art, curiosity, and stubborn hope. Drawn together in a city where tomorrow is never guaranteed, they begin to share stolen hours in museums, on streets suddenly emptied by alarms, and in quiet conversations that feel like shelter. Yet their growing closeness is not a simple escape: it forces Pierre to confront fear, duty, and the expectations of family and nation, while Luce must defend the right to tenderness and imagination in a time that treats both as luxuries. Romain Rolland writes their awakening with lyric intimacy and a clear pacifist heartbeat, asking what love can mean when history insists on destruction. The result is a brief, luminous story of youth, compassion, and the fragile courage to live fully in the present.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:24:46) Chapter 2

(00:48:38) Chapter 3

(01:03:08) Chapter 4

(01:17:55) Chapter 5

(01:39:11) Chapter 6

(01:57:51) Chapter 7

(02:16:56) Chapter 8

(02:36:25) Chapter 9

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Armand Durand by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon ~ Full Audiobook [romance] Apr 24, 2023

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Armand Durand by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon audiobook.

Genre: romance

Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks to her Montreal education and marriage to a man from an old Québécois family.

Paul Durand, a prosperous Québécois farmer, marries in quick succession two very different wives, and fathers two very different sons. The first son, Armand, delicate and bookish, is destined for a legal career in the city; the second, Paul Junior, tougher and down-to-earth, continues life on the farm. The story deals with troubling aspects of parental, sibling, and marital relationships.

Armand Durand may be one of the best Canadian novels that no one has heard of. It was well received in both its English and French editions, but is today hard to find, especially in the original English. Silenced Sextet (1993), a study of 19th-century Canadian women authors whose works were initially popular but later slipped into obscurity, offers this assessment: “it is a mature novel, valuable for its complex human relationships and also for its glimpses of Montreal life in Leprohon’s own time and of rural Quebec life in somewhat earlier days.”

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:19:37) Chapter 02

(00:43:17) Chapter 03

(01:05:22) Chapter 04

(01:29:40) Chapter 05

(01:47:16) Chapter 06

(02:29:33) Chapter 07

(02:46:32) Chapter 08

(03:04:08) Chapter 09

(03:25:39) Chapter 10

(03:43:48) Chapter 11

(04:04:16) Chapter 12

(04:44:00) Chapter 13

(04:57:42) Chapter 14

(05:30:27) Chapter 15

(05:54:45) Chapter 16

(06:26:10) Chapter 17

(07:02:27) Chapter 18

(07:20:58) Chapter 19

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Fundamentals of Prosperity by Roger Babson ~ Full Audiobook [business] Apr 21, 2023

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Fundamentals of Prosperity by Roger Babson audiobook.

Genre: business

Written in the wake of Americas post-World War I boom, Roger W. Babsons Fundamentals of Prosperity asks a blunt question: what happens when a nation stacks story after story of profits and expansion on a foundation that is too thin to hold it? A pioneering statistician and business forecaster, Babson speaks directly to business leaders and working citizens, arguing that lasting prosperity is not built first from raw materials or clever finance, but from inner and civic fundamentals - honesty, faith, industry, cooperation, thrift, imagination, vision, and a renewed commitment to service. Moving from practical observations about production, opportunity, and human resources to pointed challenges about leadership and character, Babson insists that the strongest investments in any community are ultimately secured by trust and by the moral habits that make people dependable partners, employees, and neighbors. He also examines the role religion and the church can play in sustaining those habits, not as a sermon, but as a diagnosis of what a modern economy quietly depends on. The result is a compact, provocative blueprint for rebuilding the foundations beneath commerce before the structure begins to crack.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:04:21) Chapter 2

(00:11:36) Chapter 3

(00:19:25) Chapter 4

(00:26:37) Chapter 5

(00:34:04) Chapter 6

(00:41:23) Chapter 7

(00:46:23) Chapter 8

(00:51:25) Chapter 9

(00:57:40) Chapter 10